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Acting

Known Credits

161

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-09-29 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As

Ian David McShane
Ίαν ΜακΣέιν
伊恩·麥克夏恩
伊恩·麦柯肖恩
이안 맥쉐인
Іен Макшейн
伊恩·麦克沙恩
ایان مک شین
Єн МакШейн
ایان مک‌شین

Ian McShane

Biography

Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Scottish-English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast(2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present).

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Acting

2025		Deep Cover
2025		From the World of John Wick: Ballerina as Winston

2024		Kung Fu Panda 4 as Tai Lung (voice)
2024		American Star as Wilson

2023		ONE PIECE as Narrator (voice)
2023		John Wick: Chapter 4 as Winston

2022

My Father's Dragon as Saiwa (voice)

2021

Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story as Narrator

2020

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU as (archive footage)

2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019		Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn as Self
2019		Deadwood: The Movie as Al Swearengen
2019		John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Winston
2019		Bolden as Judge Perry
2019		Master of Dark Shadows as Narrator
2019		Hellboy as Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm

2018		Age of Sail as William Avery (voice)
2018		A Wizard's Tale as The Grump (voice)

2017		Pottersville as Bart
2017		Jawbone as Joe Padgett
2017		American Gods as Mr. Wednesday / God Odin
2017		John Wick: Chapter 2 as Winston

2016		The Hollow Point as Leland
2016		Bilal: A New Breed of Hero as Umayya (voice)
2016		Doctor Thorne as Sir Roger Scatcherd
2016		Grimsby as MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited)

2014		John Wick as Winston
2014		The Kid as Inglés
2014		Hercules as Amphiarus
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014		Cuban Fury as Ron Parfitt
2014		Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self

2013		How We Used to Live as Narrator
2013		Ray Donovan as Malcolm Finney
2013		Ray Donovan as Andrew Finney
2013		Jack the Giant Slayer as King Brahmwell

2012

Snow White and the Huntsman as Beith

2011		American Horror Story as Leigh Emerson
2011		Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
2011		Game of Thrones as Brother Ray

2010		The Pillars of the Earth as Waleran Bigod
2010		The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Narrator (voice)

2009		44 Inch Chest as Meredith
2009		Case 39 as Detective Mike Barron
2009		Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm as Self (archive footage)
2009		Kings as King Silas Benjamin
2009		Coraline as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)

2008		Death Race as Coach
2008		Kung Fu Panda as Tai Lung (voice)

2007		The Golden Compass as Ragnar Sturlusson (voice)
2007		The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising as Merriman Lyon
2007		Hot Rod as Frank Powell
2007		Shrek the Third as Captain Hook (voice)
2007		The Dame Edna Treatment

2006		We Are Marshall as Paul Griffen
2006		Scoop as Joe Strombel

2005

Nine Lives as Larry

2004

Deadwood as Al Swearengen

2003		Nemesis Game as Jeff Novak
2003		Terror in Moscow as Narrator
2003		Agent Cody Banks as Brinkman
2003		Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003		Trust as Alan Cooper-Fozard

2002		Bollywood Queen as Frank
2002		The Twilight Zone as Chandler
2002		Man and Boy as Marty Mann

2001		Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
2001		The Making of Sexy Beast as Self
2001		In Deep as Jamie Lamb

2000

Sexy Beast as Teddy Bass

1999		D.R.E.A.M. Team as Oliver Maxwell
1999		The West Wing as Nikolai Ivanovich
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Toby Moore

1998

Babylon 5: The River of Souls as Robert Bryson

1997

Traders of the Lost Scrolls as Narrator

1996		The Daily Show as Self
1996		Madson as John Madson

1995		The Naked Truth as Leland Banks
1995		Soul Survivors as Otis Cooke

1994

White Goods as Ian Deegan

1993

GMTV as Self

1990		Chillers as Steven Castle
1990		Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception as Andre Marchand

1989		The Simpsons as Artemis (voice)
1989		Dick Francis: Twice Shy as David Cleveland
1989		Chain Letter as The Messenger of Death
1989		Miami Vice: Freefall as Gen. Manuel Borbon
1989		Young Charlie Chaplin as Charles Chaplin Snr

1988		War and Remembrance as Philip Rule
1988		The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Roger Bushell
1988		The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Roger Bushell

1987		Going Live! as Self
1987		CBS Summer Playhouse as Marbury
1987		Grand Larceny as Flanagan

1986		The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Prefet de police
1986		Rocket to the Moon as Willy Wax
1986		Lovejoy as Lovejoy

1985		Braker as Alan Roswell
1985		A.D. as Sejanus
1985		Evergreen as Paul Lerner
1985		Torchlight as Sidney

1984		Too Scared to Scream as Vincent Hardwick
1984		Miami Vice as Esteban Montoya
1984		Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durant

1983		Natural World as Narrator
1983		Exposed as Greg Miller
1983		Bare Essence as Niko Theophilus
1983		Grace Kelly as Prince Rainier of Monaco

1982		Marco Polo as Alì Ben Youssuf
1982		Wogan as Self
1982		The Letter as Geoff
1982		American Playhouse as Willy Wax

1981

Cheaper to Keep Her as Dr. Alfred Sunshine

1980		Magnum, P.I. as David Norman
1980		Magnum, P.I. as Edwin Clutterbuck
1980		The Great Riviera Bank Robbery as The Brain (Bert)
1980		High Tide as Curtis

1979		Minder as Jack Last
1979		Yesterday's Hero as Rod Turner
1979		The Fifth Musketeer as Fouquet

1978		The Pirate as Rashid
1978		Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
1978		Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
1978		Life of Shakespeare as Christopher Marlowe
1978		Dallas as Don Lockwood
1978		Armchair Thriller as Curtis

1977		Code Name: Diamond Head as Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler
1977		Jesus of Nazareth as Judas Iscariot
1977		The Fantastic Journey as Sir James Camden
1977		The Fantastic Journey as Sir James Camden
1977		Roots as Sir Eric Russell

1975		The Lives of Jenny Dolan as Saunders
1975		Matt Helm as Paul
1975		Space: 1999 as Anton Zoref
1975		Journey into Fear as Banat

1974		Ransom as Ray Petrie
1974		Police Woman
1974		What Would You Do? as Derek

1973

The Last of Sheila as Anthony

1972

Sitting Target as Birdy Williams

1971		Columbo as Leland St. John
1971		Villain as Wolfe Lissner

1970		The Ballad of Tam Lin as Tom Lynn
1970		A Sound from the Sea as Tom
1970		Performance as Noel - Black Musician (voice) (uncredited)
1970		Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You as Fred C. Dobbs
1970		Freelance as Mitch

1969		Battle of Britain as Sgt. Pilot Andy
1969		If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Charlie Cartwright

1968

Funeral Games as Caulfield

1967		Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
1967		Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff

1966

You Can't Win as Joe Lunn

1965		Sky West and Crooked as Roibin
1965		The Pleasure Girls as Keith Dexter

1964		Redcap as Sapper Russell
1964		The Wednesday Play

1962

The Wild and the Willing as Harry Brown

1956

Armchair Theatre as Geoffrey

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

Directing

1986

Lovejoy as Director

Production

2024

American Star as Producer

2019

Deadwood: The Movie as Executive Producer

2017

American Gods as Production Executive

1996

Madson as Producer